Equipment Operator HFT

Job Knowledge, Core Competencies and Expectations

• Some knowledge of golf course operations.
• Some knowledge of irrigation systems.
• Knowledge of and ability to perform required role in emergency situations.
• Mechanical aptitude.
• Ability to safely operate trucks and light motorized equipment.
• Knowledge of the principles of operation of gasoline engines.
• Knowledge of maintenance tools.
• Working knowledge of and ability to use hand and power tools and other equipment.
• Ability to comprehend and learn tasks associated with golf course construction/maintenance.
• Knowledge of and ability to perform required role during emergency situations.

Job Summary (Essential Functions)

• Maintain golf course and landscaping around the course, clubhouse and other club facilities, including parking lots.

Job Tasks/Duties

• Plants and maintains ornamental shrubs and trees.
• Trims and feeds shrubs and trees; removes cuttings.
• Maintains landscape beds around clubhouse and club grounds.
• Rakes and blows leaves.
• Mows greens, tees, collars, approaches, rough and fairways with appropriate turf equipment.
• Prepares and lays sod.
• Prepares soil plant beds, and establishes plantings by seed or transplants.
• Maintains annual and perennial flowers in aesthetic arrangements.
• Rakes bunkers.
• Loads and unloads materials.
• Repairs and maintains driving range tees.
• Cleans equipment used in practice area.
• May aerify and spikes greens.
• Digs holes and trenches to maintain or construct irrigation and drainage lines.
• Installs pipe and backfills excavations.
• Empties garbage cans.
• May operates turf vac, loader-backhoe, fairway and rough aerifier.
• Assists in daily course set -up. Moves tee markers and change cups; maintains ball washers;
  replaces tee towels and flags and cleans course hardware when needed.
• Maintains gasoline, oil and other equipment fluid levels daily; reports equipment problems
  and failures to mechanic or supervisors immediately.
• Maintains maintenance and fluid-use logs (gas and oil) on equipment.
• Ensures that all equipment receives visual pre-operation check list inspection as directed by the Mechanic.
• Performs basic preventive maintenance on equipment as directed and returns equipment to designated location at the shop.
• Cleans machinery after each use and grease as instructed.
• Inspects machinery after each use and refuel.
• Utilizes loaders to remove dirt, debris and other materials.
• Drives a tractor and trailer to haul materials and refuse.
• Operates portable pumps.
• Loads and unloads materials.
• Cleans gutters, drains and culverts.
• Waters plants.
• Attends applicable training seminars, classes to maintain current knowledge.
• Attends staff meetings.
• Performs other appropriate tasks assigned by First and Second Assistant Superintendent.

Education and/or Experience

• Some High School.
• Six months of experience in golf course grounds maintenance or greens keeping.

Licenses and Special Requirements

• Valid driver’s license.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and outside weather conditions.
• Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles and toxic or caustic chemicals.
• Occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places; extreme cold; extreme heat; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
• Able to meet and perform the physical requirements and to work effectively in an environment which is typical of this position.
• Frequent lifting, bending, climbing, stooping and pulling.

May need to use some protective equipment, such as a respirator, gloves, earplugs, eye guards/visors, boots and hat